Ebook: Understanding Youth Offending : Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice
Author: Case Stephen, Haines Kevin
- Tags: Delinquance juvenile -- Grande-Bretagne., Delinquance juvenile -- Politique gouvernementale -- Grande-Bretagne., Justice pour mineurs -- Administration -- Grande-Bretagne., Juvenile delinquency -- Government policy -- Great Britain., Juvenile delinquency -- Great Britain., Juvenile justice Administration of -- Great Britain.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken
- Language: English
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This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour. There has been growing concern, however, on the part of critical criminologists and others, about the theoretical, epistemological, Read more...
Abstract: This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour. There has been growing concern, however, on the part of critical criminologists and others, about the theoretical, epistemological, methodological and ethical bases of risk-focused research with young people. They have pointed particularly to the overly-deterministic and prescriptive nature of the risk factor paradigm